Born in Lisbon, 1970.

Lives and works in Lisbon.

EDUCATION

1988/90: attended Painting Course at AR.CO (Art and Communication Center), Lisbon.

1989/94: attended Painting Course at FBAUL (University of Lisbon – School of Arts).

1994/98: attended Sculpture Course at the same university.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1997: Abstrakt (Bild in Motion), Art Attack, Café Flôr de Liz, Caldas da Rainha.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2001: Disseminações, Culturgest, Lisbon.

Sparring Partners vs Tone Scientists, CAPC, Coimbra.

União Latina Prize, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.

Streetwear, Galeria da Mitra, Lisbon.

Squatters, Serralves Foundation, Oporto.

Colectiva, Galeria Cristina Guerra, Lisbon.

Apresentação,  Galeria Central Tejo, Museu de Electricidade, Lisbon.

7/10, Sete Artistas ao Décimo Mês, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.

2000: VídeoLisboa 2000 – Video Installations, Palácio Galveias, Lisbon.

O Olhar da Contemporaneidade, Palácio da Rosa, Lisbon.

ZDB Go To Frisco, Sister Spaces, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA.

IMAGO2000 (film and video encounters), Covilhã.

FAC 2000 – Contemporary Art Fair, Cristina Guerra Gallery, FIL, Lisbon.

1999: Touch, Sala de Exposições da Casa da Cultura da Horta, City of Horta, Faial Island,

Azores.

BM99, Bienal da Maia, Fórum da Maia, Maia.

Colecção António Cachola, Arte Portuguesa anos 80-90, Museo Estremeño e

Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain.

1998: III Bienal de Arte AIP’98, As Escolhas dos Críticos de Arte Portuguesa

Contemporânea, Europarque, Santa Maria da Feira.

Art Attack na ZDB *, Galeria ZDB, Lisboa.

O Império Contra-Ataca, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon.

Tone Scientists: Live at Malibu Beach *, Art Attack no Museu de Cerâmica, Caldas da

Rainha.

Casa de Rute *, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon.

1997: Anatomias Contemporâneas, O Corpo na Arte Portuguesa dos Anos 90,

Fundição de Oeiras, Oeiras.

Take Off, Galerie Krinzinger, Benger Fabrik, Bregenz, Austria.

Toys Are Us, Cisterna da Faculdade de Belas Artes, Lisbon.

II Bienal de Arte Jovem da Maia, Forum da Maia, Maia e Valladolid, Spain.

II Bienal de Famalicão: Em Torno de Camilo, Fundição Cupertino de Miranda, Vila

Nova de Famalicão.

X-rated, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon.

1996: Titanium Exposé **, Galeria Graça Fonseca, Lisbon.

Zapping Ecstasy *, CAPC, Coimbra.

Virtual Shop, Galeria ZDB, Cutting Edge, AR.CO, Madrid, Spain.

Greenhouse Display, Estufa Fria, Lisbon.

1995: Lisboa Fora de Horas – 29.9.95, Lisbon.

Heaven Inc., CAPC, Coimbra.

Clausura – Objectos Experimentais, Galeria Satélite na Galeria ZDB, Lisbon.

1994: Independent Worm Saloon **, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon.

Set-up, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon.

Qualquer Semelhança É Inevitável, Loja da Atalaia, Lisbon.

1993: Real Rave, Cine-teatro da Portela, Sintra.

** as an artist and a curater.

* with Tone Scientists.

OTHER PROJECTS

Co-founder of the independent music label Moneyland Records.

Former member of the experimental music project Gary Cooper.

Tone Scientists (+ Rui Valério and Carlos Roque) is an art band with all the dreams, needs and fears of a rock one.

Former member of DUB VIDEO CONNECTION, a project developed in collaboration with João Carrilho and Rui Valério about everything about video: production, shooting, editing, overdubbing, broadcasting, live-act mixing...

...X-React, Lisbon, 1997.

...Subsonyko III, Cisterna do Príncipe Real, Lisbon, 1998.

...Subsonyko IV, Armazéns Abel Pereira da Fonseca, Lisbon, 1998.

...Midnight Tea, Praça Sony at Expo 98, Lisbon, 1998.

3 shows with the eletronic music project Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzp!: at ZDB Gallery, at FNAC and at Garage as the support set for a Mouse On Mars concert (they all took place in Lisbon during 1998).

As Vee Jays residents at LUX-Frágil (www.luxfragil.com) they have performed more than 100 live-acts, providing visual support for dj’s, musicians and bands such as DJ Vibe, Rui Vargas, Yen Sung, Zé Pedro Moura, Norman Jay, Superfly, Kid Loco, Dinis, Tiago, Cut La Roc, Paulo Feliciano, Mark Rae, Aim, Rockers Hi-Fi, Fauna Flash, Ben Wilcox, Kevin Mckay, Claas Brieler (Jazzanova), Amalgamation of Soundz, Jadell, Unabombers, DJ As-If, Henry Smithson, Poppa Laws, Rainer Truby, Alex Barck (Jazzanova), Fabio, Grooverider, Cinematic Orchestra, Groove Armada, Peter kruder, Richard Dorfmeister...

Along with João Paulo Feleciano they have shown LANDSCOPE, a gig kind of a HOUSEWARE EXPERIENCE short version, at LUX-Frágil (1999); Bienal de Poesia, Vila Nova de Foz Côa (1999); and at 5º Festival X, Cacilhas, Almada (1999).

Participation in the project «Snapshots» within experimentadesign99, Lisbon.

Also in 99 the program Metropolis of TVE (Spanish Television) broadcasted Dub Reel, a four minutes blasting Dub Video Connection promo.

Member of the «resident houseware team» that already presented HOUSEWARE EXPERIENCE – explorations in live mixed media (www.grandecena.com/houseware) first edition at Central Tejo in Lisbon (1999), featuring Amon Tobin, D-Fuse, The Apolloprogram, Nonplace Urban Field, David Toop, Rafael Toral, Major Eléctrico, Peterman, Dreamlab, among others.

More recently, HOUSEWARE EXPERIENCE flow to Germany for a gig at Hannover EXPO 2000.

Em Tempo Real was a HOUSEWARE EXPERIENCE collaboration with Nova Dança 4 (a brazillian dance company from São Paulo) that took place during the ACARTE Encounters Brazil 2000 at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, and was also shown at Dança Brasil Festival 2001, Banco Cultural do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

RUI TOSCANO contact:

address: R. Miguel Ângelo de Blasco, #6, 1070-182 Lisboa, Portugal.

home phone: 00 351 21 3880339

celular phone: 00 351 96 6870633

e-mail: rui-toscano@clix.pt